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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag has occurred near Guanica in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 9, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.8193S, -66.888WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. The temblor was picked up at 18:05:30 / 6:05 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us70006wny. Event ids that are associated: us70006wny. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/01/20 / 2020-01-08 22:05:30 / January 8, 2020 @ 10:05 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -66.888 West, latitude 17.8193 North, depth = 10 km.

The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Naranjito, Cidra, Guayama (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-nine, in the last 10 days one hundred and sixty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km S of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.888° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8193° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km S of Guanica, Puerto Rico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-08 22:05:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-09 00:37:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 211 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.281 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 184 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70006wny Id of event.
Event Code 70006wny An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006wny, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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